Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

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.

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