I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

We had Bob's [Gordon] records, and he's on Clifford Brown's first record as a leader. I believe it was Clifford Brown's first record as a leader and had the original versions of Daahoud and Joy Spring that were arranged by Bob's best friend, the West Coast tenor player named Jack Montrose, who I later met.

Did you know you can take your bus anywhere you want to go? Say yes three times with me. Yes, yes, yes. You can take it to the movies, the beach or the North Pole. Just say where you want to go and believe that it will be so. Because every journey and ride begins with a desire to go somewhere and do something and if you have a desire then you also have the power to make it happen.

Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination as late as possible, with a smile on your face.

Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.