Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.

New York is still where I live most of the time.