I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

It was incredible. The samba is fantastic, I want to buy the record.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.