I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.