"I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble."

"I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did."

"I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind."

"Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one."