Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

I've met every freak in the business.