“When I go into the studio, I’m strictly for business. I don’t like any fooling around in the studio.”

Sittin’ here resting my bones, this loneliness won’t leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home.

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

If I were to leave the U.S., I’d live in England. But I’d never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

Sitting in the morning sun, I’ll be sitting when the evening comes.

This loneliness won’t leave me alone.

You’ve got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don’t ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

I’m a studio guy. That’s really what I love the most.

And I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive.

When we are in our studios, in our private space.

Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff that people and stuff that people don’t know. I’m very proud with the way it came out.

I mean, nothing ever really happened with ’em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.