I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of.

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

I just have a lot off different influences.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.