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.

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.

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

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.

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

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