Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.

My wife is so sweet... she probably gets tired of me calling her with nothing to say, but she's always there for me.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

I have only got encouragement and lessons from my family, so I don't associate negative things like pressure with them.

Although I will miss serving you in the Senate, I look forward to spending more time with family, especially my sweet wife Elaine, whose unwavering love and support made all of this possible.

I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.