When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows a….

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal p….

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver..

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond.

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana..

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it..

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling..

Everything worth doing starts with being scared..

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are ….

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems..

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the h….

Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a w….

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp..

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harm….

Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their ….

So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove ….

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts ov….

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want t….

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a ….

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records..

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way..