My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.