When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.