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 don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

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