My Son Is A Hip-hop Producer.

The People Who Make It To The Top - Whether They're Musicians, Or Great Chefs, Or Corporate Honchos - Are Addicted To Their Calling ... [they] Are The Ones Who'd Be Doing Whatever It Is They Love, Even If They Weren't Being Paid.

You Can Study Orchestration, You Can Study Harmony And Theory And Everything Else, But Melodies Come Straight From God.

When You're Over The Hill, That's When You Pick Up Speed.

I Was Married For 36 Years But Now I'm Free.

Eight Kids And A Stepmother, And I Just Wanted To Be Out Of There And So When I Got A Scholarship From Boston To The Schillinger House, Which Is Now The Berklee School Of Music, I Couldn't Wait To Get Out Of There.