Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters.
Eddie Marlin was a big deal for a long time to a lot of people.
I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
Pharrell is a legend.
Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.
