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

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

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

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.

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

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I'm inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song.