I Sang And Wrote Songs When I

I'm Improvising All The Time. Everything I Do Is Improvised. On The Piano, At Least.

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.

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.

I Don't Sit Down To Write A Song; They Just Come To Me From Something That Somebody Says, Or Something In The News. The Punchline Comes To Me, And I Go Over It In My Head And Get The Song Form. I Hadn't Been Doing That A Lot.

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.