Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.