We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life.'

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.