When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

You don't know where you're going.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".