The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.