I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

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.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

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.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.