Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn’t want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies...

I had demons and felt socially inept.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

I’m a terrible dancer. The worst.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Proving I’m a good mother is the one achievement I’m most proud of. It’s brought out the best in me.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I’ve had it. I haven’t got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I...

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

I’m definitely a pop artist at heart.

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

The whole world has changed much since the ’80’s. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn’t the case in the early ’80’s.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

And when I started, I also programmed the drum machines with the intention of taking them off and replacing them with acoustic drums.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Every time I show up to do something here it’s considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn’t call it that, I’d be disappointed.

I’m just passionately in love with my kids.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small...

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.