People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.