it sounds worse. >> my advice to musicians -- you know, burt bacharach had a lucky career.lize on the songs he was writing at a time when you could hire a songwriter. my advice to musicians is never count on royalty checks. try to own your material. believe me. you want to own the songs you write. you could get lucky. ultimately you have to perform your own songs. you have to figure out a way to take care of yourself. there is always a way to do it. you know, i don't think you have to count on the social media to be your food money. it's like what kind of money do you have to have for a successful youtube video? you get to promote something. >> i feel the same way. let me ask you about another story. >> sure. >> you're a libertarian capitalist. >> definitely. >> i love that. >> oh, yeah. >> there is a headline story on the web tonight. the irs is targeting this hollywood group called friends of abe. it's a republican group in hollywood which is difficult. guys in the group, pat boone, kelsey grammer, jon voight. and others. i know you're not in the group. what do you think?

so you are actually burt bacharach and hall davis' number one, you're the trumpeter singing. >> it wassinging a song instead of me photographing you with the trumpet in your mouth all the time. >> mm-hmm. >> and i had a friend by the name of burt bacharach. >> a good friend to have. >> yeah. i called him, i said, burt, is there a song you find yourself whistling in the shower, or recorded, maybe didn't get the right recording -- >> yeah. >> anyways, he isn't me "this girl's in love with you" recorded by dionne warwick. >> right. >> and i loved the song. i felt i could handle it as a vocalist. obviously, hall david needed to make some changes in the lyric, change the gender, et cetera. i asked him as i was leaving his place, is there a song, by the way, you know, you didn't get the right recording, you find yourself whistling in the shower, blah, blah, blah, and he sent me "close to you." >> oh, my god, yeah. >> which i was going to do as a follow-up to -- >> tell me about the story carpenters, you brought up "close to you." you were a fan from the start. >> i learned something from sam