Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn't my drug. I didn't like it.

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

Love will abide, take things in stride.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

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