Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

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

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

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

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.