I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

This is exposure to a clientele who may have had a preconceived notion of what we're like. Once they're in there, they experience (the restaurant) and that's the best form of marketing.