Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.