"I think you can develop a personal practice that celebrates one's own imagination and I think that's why I write music."
"Since I've been singing Bobby Troup the adjectives most people use now are cool and swinging. I find it hilarious. I was the least cool guy in high school. It's nice his music has leant me a cloak of coolness."
"These women were so prominent in their time, why does what remains with us now are the great male composers like Irving Berlin and George Gershwin? Because it hasn't been told like it should be."
"Naturally whatever is occurring in the world, and we are living in difficult times today, it's going to influence each of us in different ways depending on how we look at the world."
