So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.