I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

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.

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

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.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.