I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

I was so lucky. I had a dad and a mom that loved me and my sisters so much. My Uncle Mike and Uncle Frank were married. They must be together for fortysomething years now. Long story short, there was never any stigma attached to that. At the youngest age, I remember my dad saying, "Sometimes men love men and women love women. It's nature.