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

If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

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 never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

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