Quotes

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard working guy.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

"My new band is better then The Beach Boys".

"The Four Freshmen influenced me the most, with their great harmonies. Whew! The greatest".

For me, making music has always been a very spiritual thing, and I think anybody who produces records has to feel that, at least a little bit. Producing a record, the idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio, well that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

To be a great producer, music has to be a big part of your soul. And when it comes to making music, if I could invent a way to get it from my heart into yours, without doing all that hard work, I would be very happy.

My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.

First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name.

'Surfer Girl' symbolized a mystical place that I have never been to but sung about. Maybe I was there, I don't know. I could have been and not known it.

I am very, very grateful for Melinda coming into my life. She taught me little things, taking one day at a time. She saved me. Not only this, she also got me off the cigarettes ... I was smoking five packs a day and it had started affecting my voice.

I was taking speed or doing coke or coming through the door drunk and hugging the kids. How did I not get them with the cigarette?