There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.