Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.
Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.
I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.
I am not what one calls a celebrity.
It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.