I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.