My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.