Failure is part of success..

Never hope for it more than you work for it..

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the on….

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?.

Funny how life messed with you..

I never had the blues; the blues always had me..

At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two know….

They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish bu….

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one..

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country..

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom..

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that re….

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to ma….

I was hired as a penciler..

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability..

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me..

I came out around 25 publicly..

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly..

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrib….

I had no Freedom. I had nothing..

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with….