My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel.

You know, I have to have the umph. I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.