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

I love doing concert music.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Any good music must be an innovation.

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

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

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