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.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

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.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

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

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

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.