People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.
I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good.
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.
I do have a trophy room. It's in my attic in boxes.
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists.
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
What's funny about my resume is so much of what I've done has not been seen.
There are people who have incredible stories that we don't talk about. People who did amazing things, men and women who faced incredible odds, and there's nothing wrong with them being heroes for once, you know?
We may not be proud of every song we've ever done - or been forced to do - but I believe we've done more than meets the eye.
I don't think people truly know what I have done or that I've actually had a regular job.
