The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.