She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.

Sometimes bad is bad.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.