Brian Cranston

Let's go to Neil Diamond.

Now, I think you should write your own songs if you're a performer.

Now, once in a while, you have your Frank Sinatra or your Tony Bennett and who gives a shit.

But Rod Stewart is a horrifically bad songwriter.

Not me, but I appreciate, first off, the difference between somebody who's just a voice and somebody who writes songs.

Like Whitney Houston was a voice.

Yeah.

And then you hook them up with a producer and a songwriter.

But so was most of that or a lot of that Motown stuff.

You know, they had producers and they had songwriters and a couple of Jewish guys would write the song.

Not as fat as the guys who wrote the jokes.

And then they'd give it to the, you know, black chicks.

And the next thing you know, you had magic.

And that was fine.

I dug that.

I mean, there's no problem with that.

But when it just comes to talent level, much prefer the singer-songwriter.

Yeah, except for he's a better singer than Bob Dylan is, and Bob Dylan would cover his songs.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, okay.