I Haven't Stopped And I Don't Plan

I Do Very Few Standards. Hardly Any. Other People's Tunes That I Do Are Usually Obscure Tunes, For The Most Part, Although I Do A Couple Of Duke Ellington Tunes That Are Well Known.

I Have Lots Of Cds That Came Out At One Time Or Another, And According To The Statements I've Gotten, No One's Buying Them.i Figured There's No Need Making A New Cd. There Are Plenty Of Mine Out There, And None Of Them Are Selling.

I Don't Sit Down To Write A Song; They Just Come To Me From Something That Somebody Says, Or Something In The News. The Punchline Comes To Me, And I Go Over It In My Head And Get The Song Form. I Hadn't Been Doing That A Lot.

I Didn't Feel Anything [frustraiting]. I Just Kept Working 110 Or 120 Nights A Year.

I Don't Care What Anyone Does, As Long As They Go Through The Copyright Office.