There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

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.

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.

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

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