The music is everything to me.

I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.

I think women's ears are a lot more sensitive. Men are going to follow whatever appeals to women.

When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.

I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one.