"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from." — Billy Joel

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

I'm a history nut.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.