I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

I always wanted praise and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.

I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.