Everybody's An Artist. Everybody's God. It's Just

Transform Jealousy To Admiration, And What You Admire Will Become Part Of Your Life.

The Process Is Always The Same. I Get An Inspiration For A New Song, I Put It Down On Paper Immediately So I Won't Lose It. When I Am Ready To Go To The Studio With It, I Play It A Few Times On The Piano And Edit, Add, And Type The Lyrics And Take It To The Studio. Sometimes I Don't Have Anything On Paper.

In The '60s, People Were Still Very Protective Of Each Field That They Belonged To. Avant-garde Artists Didn't Know About Rock Or Pop Or Jazz. And The Jazz People Of Course Didn't Want To Know About Any Other Music. They Were All Just Kind Of Protecting Their Territory.

Even My Mother Told Me: 'you Are A Handsome Woman, But You're Not Pretty. Pretty Girls Don't Have Those Big Bones.'

I Think Energy Is The Most Important Thing That We Can Give To People As Performers. Anything Else Is A Little Bit Pretentious. But Energy Is Not.