Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.