I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.