Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.