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 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.

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

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.

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