My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

can still sit on a park bench in a playground all day.

My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

They've got [Alfonso] Soriano and [Luis] Castillo. I wouldn't be playing. I don't want to sit on the bench. I'll go to spring training and get ready for the season.

I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.