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

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

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

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

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

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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.