You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

