When you're a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you're married to them or not, you're going to run into creative conflict….

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway..

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers..

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates..

You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to ….

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere..

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so ca….

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel..

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job..

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'.….

That's the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them. That's more important even then what their backgro….

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, ma….

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much..

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording….

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you ju….

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more..

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where ….

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong..

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds..

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record compan….

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or….