I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.