Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.