I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I write emotional music.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I love doing concert music.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

Dear Lord please show me what really matters so that I may be able to determine what is distraction and God's direction in my life.

He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard.

The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future.

To entertain your worries and woes, is to invite the inevitability of defeat - into your life.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

The absence of fear is love.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.