I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

I've always been into writing love songs.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."