I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
I'm playin' the music I like.
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
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.