A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.