The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.

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

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

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