When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”
“I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.”