Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

I never felt like I had a mother.

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.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

You have to know that your real home is within.

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush