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.

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

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

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

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

I earned my famous name.