You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.
I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.
The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.
You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.
I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
When I can't write, it depresses me.
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.
