When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please

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.

Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.

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.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

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