My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.

PSG - I think they had a money problem and they couldn't buy players. This is the main reason I didn't go there.

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.