My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.