I only work with people I like.

The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.

I wouldn't know how to retire.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

Nard and I thought it over and came up with some answers via ‘band logic,’ not to be confused with actual logic.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I’m not stuck in any one particular time period.

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I’m a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

Artists don’t come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

I’d probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they’re somewhat biographical – they’re fiction but also non-fiction.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that’s what I like to think I’m doing.