I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.