I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters.
Eddie Marlin was a big deal for a long time to a lot of people.
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
Pharrell is a legend.
Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.
