I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.