Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

I am not a creature of habit.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.