“To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.”

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don’t think I would’ve done as good without an education.

I remember Mick Jagger asking me ‘hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?’ I said ‘Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick – no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that’s the reason I’ve been around so long.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

I don’t wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we’ll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it’s gonna be a cold lonely summer But I’ll fill the emptiness I’ll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn’t. My number was up.

I’ve heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don’t like that. Because I think I’m established now.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.

It’s almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it