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I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.