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.

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

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

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

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.

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

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.