Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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

I write emotional music.

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

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

I'm not an intellectual composer.

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