I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

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

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

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.