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

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.

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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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