I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."