When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write