It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'