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

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

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

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.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.