Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.