Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

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

I write emotional music.

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

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

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