Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don't think I ever felt young again in that way. I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

[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.

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

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

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.