I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

I don’t want to become a rich man but a poor man with a lot of money.

If you're playing on a soft-sounding instrument like a Rhodes, you're not going to write honky-tonk raucous rock and roll. The character of the instrument will be imbedded in whatever you write.

The difference between the wealthy and the poor are the choices and priories in there lives.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.