The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

I'm a little young for retirement.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.