Serious Music Usually Doesn't Pay.

My Dad Had A Steady Job With A Really Major Dance Band From '54 Till '68, And Then Quit Because He Wanted To Play Different Music. He Wanted To Sing About Peace. He Believed In These Things.

Sometimes I Write Notes That I Have Difficulty Singing. And You Start Talking Yourself Out Of The Bold Melody And Start Wanting To Arrange It In Another Key Or Something. Maybe I Just Never Learned My Harmony Part, Because What Everybody Says Sounds Odd To Them Sounds Perfectly Natural To Me.

You Have To Face The Fact That I Have No Reputation As A Composer; I Have My Reputation As A Songwriter And A Performer-and That Opportunity Came This Summer, When I Was Invited To Perform At The Lincoln Centre Festival In New York... Three Nights.

Obviously The People That I Admired, Like The Beatles, Were Really Into Rock'n'roll, But It Was Already A Little Past Rock'n'roll When I Started Listening And Making My Own Choices About Music.

Though The Passion Still Flutters And Flickers, It Never Got Into Our Knickers.