You used to be the best to make life be real to me,
and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.