What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

A simple I love you means more than money.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.