I Just Have A Lot Off Different

My Main Influences Have Always Been The Classic Jazz Players Who Sang, Like Louis Armstrong And Nat King Cole And Jack Teagarden.

The Idea Was I'd Never Amount To Anything In Music, The Theme There Was That I Was Talented, But I Wouldn't Work Hard Enough To Do Anything With It.

I'm Playin' The Music I Like.

I Started Going To A Piano Teacher At 5 Years Old, But Pretty Soon I Started Picking Things Out On My Own And Stopped Taking Music Lessons. I Never Could Read Music Very Well, But I've Still Been Doing It.

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.