While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.

I think - you know, the big trauma in my life, personally, was the fact that at 14, I was taken out of Poland unwittingly because my parents were divorced. Left the country - my mother left for England with her new husband. I wasn't even aware that she'd married him.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.