Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

It's exciting for me to see [Laura Bush] busy and out there enjoying what she's doing. But we always make time to be with each other as well.

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.

The egg, you see, is a very sexy thing. Egg is like birth. Eggshell is sexy. Egg yolk is definitely sexy. Oh, I love egg.

I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.