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.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

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.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

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

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.