We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.