Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.