When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight.

I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards.

I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.