Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

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.

I never felt like I had a mother.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.