Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

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.

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.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

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.