I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

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.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

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

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.