It Took Me Twenty Years Study And

White Folks Always Think That You Have To Have A Label On Everything - You Know What I Mean?

I Don't Pay No Attention To What Critics Say About Me, The Good Or The Bad. The Toughest Critic I Got Is Myself...and I'm Too Vain To Play Anything I Think Is Bad.

I Put All Those Synthesizer Sounds Behind "decoy" And "code M.d." A Lot Of Things We Write Together. A Lot Of Things Are His, But They Don't Have That Thing I Want On The Bottom. I Often Tell Him, I Say, "bobby [irving], If There's A Melody, There's Another One Somewhere That Goes With It."

Lionel [richie] Said, "yeah, I Learned Chords And Stuff Playin' Against Your Albums."

People Will Go For Anything They Don't Understand If It's Got Enough Hype.