My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?