There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.