I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic sexy but classy all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music then the lyrical content starts to come - you know the stories and things like that.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical music and I needed a time-out.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

As a rule my focus is on classical music but I love jazz. I love everything actually.

Every so often I feel I should graduate to classical music properly. But the truth is I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop classical and opera.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem but it's real.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful and successful.

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.