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.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.