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

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".