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

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.