We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band