My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

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.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.