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.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.