If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

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

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

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.