“We were thinking of an excuse to go into the studio - me and Allan Sch...” — B. J. Thomas Quote

“We were thinking of an excuse to go into the studio - me and Allan Schwartzberg and Bob Mann, my two guys I've recorded with so much in New York City. We said, 'Man, let's make an album of Brazilian music just for ourselves, if nothing else.' So we made it.”

“I go down to South America every four or five years or so.”

“I never put my heart into anything I don't believe in, or can't feel personally.”

“I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.”

“Bob's music has always conveyed a message of hope, unity and love.”

“Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he's on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon's presidency and then on into Gerald Ford.”