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

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

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 sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.