I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.