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 is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

I am a fan of history.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.