I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

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

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

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

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.