I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.
Besides music and charity, fashion is one of my interests that has been growing over the past few years. I think it goes so hand in hand, music and fashion.
Miami is a really special place for me, particularly in the U.S. It was one of the first places in the country to really embrace dance music, and I've been going there for many, many years.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
