The Only Music I Don't Like Is

My Daddy Was A Carpenter That Worked With The Jones Boys, Who Are The Most Notorious In America. The Black Gangsters, You Know, They Were No Joke. And He Was Their Master Carpenter. He Used To Build Their Homes, And All I Saw When I Was 11 Years Old Were Dead Bodies And Tommy Guns And Stogies, And Backrooms, You Know, Drexel Wine And Liquor, With The Big Piles Of Money Underneath.

Billy Strayhorn Wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy To Me Is The Boss Of The Arrangers.

I've Been Driven All My Life By A Spirit Of Adventure And A Criminal Level Of Optimism. I Believed In My Dreams Because They Were My Only Option. The People Who Make It To The Top Are Addicted To Their Calling. You Have To Honor The Gift God Has Given You. The People Who Get The Call Are The Ones Who'd Be Doing Whatever It Is They Love, Even If They Weren't Being Paid.

I'm A Great Believer In Letting Lyrics Just Flow Out, Wherever They Come From.

I Go To The Favelas In Brazil. It's The Same In The South Side Of Chicago. It's The Same, Or Just More Violent. We're Trying To Get Them To Stop Selling Dope. You See Kids With Ak-47s, And Nine-year-olds With Nine Millimeters. You Know, They Don't Play. They Make Us Look Like Nuns.