I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.

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

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

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.