I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music for one thing I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

What I took back because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans but no critics darling.

Music is the language of the heart and conservatives always screw it up.

When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.