I'm playin' the music I like.

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

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

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

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

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

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.