Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.