I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.