I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

But if two and two and fifty make a million...

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.