My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
I've been overweight all my life.
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
