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

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

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.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I love doing concert music.