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

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

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

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

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

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

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