What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I never felt like I had a mother.