Music Became A Healer For Me.

Given The Choice Between Accomplishing Something And Just Lying Around, I'd Rather Lie Around. No Contest.

I Sought My Father In The World Of The Black Musician, Because It Contained Wisdom, Experience, Sadness And Loneliness. I Was Not Ever Interested In The Music Of Boys. From My Youngest Years, I Was Interested In The Music Of Men.

And If I Don't Be There By Morning, She'll Know That I Must've Spent The Night In Jail.

I Listened To King Oliver And I Listened To Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I Listened To Everything I Could That Came From That Place That They Call The Blues But, In Formality, Isn't Necessarily The Blues.

I Never Set Myself Too High A Goal. It Was Always Tone And Feeling, For Me.