I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

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

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

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.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.