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

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.

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

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Any good music must be an innovation.

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.