I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

She's got a smile that heals me.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.