ms. streisand and others that have been honored this in your music, they get handed such a rich lyrical content that if they have a kind of songs filing that they can bring to that continent, it is going to be magical. >> that is very nice, but let's not forget the melody. the great composers we have worked with. we prefer to write to the music. people as which comes first and we prefer the music to come first. when you work with john williams and dave grissom and johnny mandel, hank mancini. how we feel about it, when the melody is there, it is wonderful that there are words on the tips of those notes had we have to find them. that is our exploration and discovery. tavis: henry mancini became hank mancini. one of the best. >> terrific. tavis: how did -- i of the story, but for those who don't, how did the two of the meet after being born in the hospital four years apart? >> we were riding with the same composer. i was writing in the morning and in the afternoon. they decided to introduce the lyric and we wrote a song that day. a terrible song. but we enjoy the process. it was 1956 and we have

ms. streisand, excuse me, you are in governor kristie's seats. [cheers] it gets better.agine it does, but it does. [laughter] she and her husband get up from their seats and they see across the aisle two other seats together. these have little white pieces of paper like this on them that say reserved. but they sit down in them anyway. and as a marine guard walked back to the end of the aisle, but then he sees them sit down in those seats. he walks right back up and i am convinced this marine was a republican. i know he was. [laughter] he tapped her on the shoulder and he said, excuse me, man, these are not your seats either. these are not -- get out of the seeds and find other seat. we witnessed barbara streisand and james rowlands of not only getting kicked out of their seats for us, but also for two other people in the chinese delegation. they wound up on the other side of the room sitting separately like we were going to have to. and during the whole concert, i could not help but a glance over there, right? and everytime i glanced over there, barbra streisand was glar

ms. streisand, excuse me, you are in governor kristie's seats. [cheers] it gets better.agine it does, but it does. [laughter] she and her husband get up from their seats and they see across the aisle two other seats together. these have little white pieces of paper like this on them that say reserved. but they sit down in them anyway. and as a marine guard walked back to the end of the aisle, but then he sees them sit down in those seats. he walks right back up and i am convinced this marine was a republican. i know he was. [laughter] he tapped her on the shoulder and he said, excuse me, man, these are not your seats either. these are not -- get out of the seeds and find other seat. we witnessed barbara streisand and james rowlands of not only getting kicked out of their seats for us, but also for two other people in the chinese delegation. they wound up on the other side of the room sitting separately like we were going to have to. and during the whole concert, i could not help but a glance over there, right? and everytime i glanced over there, barbra streisand was glar