When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.