Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.