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.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

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

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.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

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.