My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.