I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.