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.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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

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

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

I'm not an intellectual composer.