I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.