One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

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.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

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