Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

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

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

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

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