I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

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

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

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