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

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

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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

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"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."

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"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

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"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

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

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"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."

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

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"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."

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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

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"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."

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