My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.