I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.