"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

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

Ideas

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

Being

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

Time

"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."

Old

"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."

Problems

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

Jazz

"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

Time

"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."

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"I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial."

Music

"At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone."

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