Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

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.

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

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.