The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.