A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

I never felt like I had a mother.

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.