I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

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.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

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

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.