China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

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

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.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

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

The process is the most beautiful part.