I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.