There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.