I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.