My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.