Count Basie Practically Adopted Me At 13.

Greatness Occurs When Your Children Love You, When Your Critics Respect You And When You Have Peace Of Mind.

A Person's Age Can Be Determined By The Degree Of Pain He Experiences When He Comes In Contact With A New Idea.

It's Very Freaky In Chicago.there's Something In The Water There, I Don't Know What It Is. But The Actual Word Chicago Means, In The Indian Language, Garlic. It Was Just Garlic And Mosquitoes There. And That Is The Roughest City On The Planet, And I Been To Every Place In The World.

I Got In The School Band And The School Choir. It All Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks, Everything Just Came Out. I Played Percussion For A While, And Stayed After School Forever Just Tinkering Around With Different Things, The Clarinets And The Violins.

What Happens When You Get A Big Break And You Haven't Prepared Yourself? That Becomes The Biggest Mistake You've Ever Made. I See It Happen All The Time.