I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

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.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

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

I never got really good at hockey.