There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.