It's A Little Intimidating To Walk Into

In A Way, We Are Magicians. We Are Alchemists, Sorcerers And Wizards. We Are A Very Strange Bunch. But There Is Great Fun In Being A Wizard.

There Will Be Other Words Some Other Day; That Is The Story Of My Life.

I Was Thinking Of The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, And When I Was Thinking "uptown Girl!" I Was Trying To Sing Like Frankie Valli. They Had A Song Called "ragdoll," Which Was About A Poor Girl And A Rich Guy. So I Just Flipped It Around And Made It About A Rich Girl And A Poor Guy.

I Consider Myself To Be An Inept Pianist, A Bad Singer, And A Merely Competent Songwriter. ... I'm Probably Writing Music Now For The Same Reason As I Started Writing Songs When I Was 14-to Meet Women. ... If You Make Music For The Human Needs You Have Within Yourself, Then You Do It For All Humans Who Need The Same Things. You Enrich Humanity With The Profound Expression Of These Feelings. ... My Songs Are Like My Kids.

You'll Learn More From Your Accidents Than Anything That You Could Ever Learn At School.