Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.