People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it’s oddly unnatural.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn’t the case.

I never thought I’d write, because I’d never written anything in my whole life.

American radio from the ’30s through the ’60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

If you don’t have story to tell the public at large – you have to be able to sort of go listen.

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We’ve always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it’s the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It’s really – and it’s everywhere, it’s ubiquitous.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it’s very inclusive.