Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.