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.

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?

[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.

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

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

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

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.