I Have No Idea What I'm Doin'.

I Don't Sit Down To Write A Song; They Just Come To Me From Something That Somebody Says, Or Something In The News. The Punchline Comes To Me, And I Go Over It In My Head And Get The Song Form. I Hadn't Been Doing That A Lot.

I'm Not Inspired By Songwriting At All; That Took Place Years Ago. I'm Pretty Well Established, As Far As My Influences Go. I Don't Listen To Music Anymore. It All Sounds The Same To Me.

I Been Getting Good Crowds. It Only Took 50 Years.

My Main Influences Have Always Been The Classic Jazz Players Who Sang, Like Louis Armstrong And Nat King Cole And Jack Teagarden.

I've Heard Some Tunes In Recent Years That Were Pretty Close To That Same Idea. The Idea Was You Turn On The Radio And You Want To Hear Some Music And Up Comes A Commercial.