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 playin' the music I like.

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.

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 remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.

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

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.