I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.