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

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.