He was interested in music. He was supposed to be producing music. He was rapping music at 15.

I'm very disturbed about that. I have two grandsons and i worry about them.

I pray that nobody has to go through what I went through, but I hear it on the news every night. The world is so hard now.

I've got the music going really loud, especially when I've got that last five minutes of working out and I just really need to crank it up a little bit.

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

It was a shock, yes, and it really woke me up to how cynical the music industry was,