I never felt like I had a mother.

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

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

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.

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.