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.

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

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

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.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.