Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.

I don't talk about the past.

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.