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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be – if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

And the live show is still our main thing.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

You have to react to what’s around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there’s a journey taken within the songs.