A song is like a dream, and you have to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback -- it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Dre, heroes, homeboys, music, industry

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

Paul [McCartney] and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.