When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.