Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
The same song on a different day was a different song.
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
There's no outdoing The Beatles.
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.
When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.
That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.
We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.
I started when I was about 11, singing.
If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.
Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.
I don't like to overcook songs.
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
