All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best artists are gone now.
I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.
Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.
I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.
I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.