Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Music is structure out of Chaos