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

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

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."

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

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

I've been tired since I was 15.