Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.