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If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga,

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

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

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

I wouldn't know how to retire.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

Nard and I thought it over and came up with some answers via 'band logic,' not to be confused with actual logic.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I only work with people I like.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.