I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

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

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

I'm playin' the music I like.