Editing While You're Writing Is Like Strangling

Whenever A Woman Would Come Too Close, I Would Cut Her Off. Part Of That Was Vindictive - But That Was Totally Subconscious.

I Learned Real Early Why God Gave Us Two Ears And One Mouth, Because You're Supposed To Listen Twice As Much As You Talk.

I Got To Trumpet, Finally. That's Why I Love To Write For Brass, And [count] Basie And [frank] Sinatra And All That Stuff, 'cause That's Just Like Part Of My Dna.

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.

We Were In The Heart Of The Ghetto In Chicago During The Depression, And Every Block - It Was Probably The Biggest Black Ghetto In America - Every Block Also Is The Spawning Ground Practically For Every Gangster, Black And White, In America Too.