I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

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.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

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