I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.