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" Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?' "

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" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "

" I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it. "

" I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world. "

" I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it. "

" I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.' "

" If you want to be famous, you can. "

" I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that. "

" I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen. "

" I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience. "

" Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color. "

" I don't ever get too literal. "

" I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs. "

" I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know? "

" We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in. "

" I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at. "

" I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production. "

" My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one. "

" I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything. "

" A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do. "

" I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen. "

" I love being home. I play with my dogs. "

" People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. "

" I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "

" It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive. "

" For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time. "

" My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company. "

" Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion. "

" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "

" I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves. "

" I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. "