I'm happy to be stuck with you.

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.