I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.