I Sang And Wrote Songs When I

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'm Always Storing Away Phrases And Ideas And Things That I Think Might Turn Into Songs.

I'm Playin' Music For A Certain Type Of Person. Fortunately, There Are More And More Of Us. At Least There Are More Comin' To See Me Than There Were 30 Years Ago Or So.

The Things That Really Matter Don't Mix With Idle Chatter.

I'm Improvising All The Time. Everything I Do Is Improvised. On The Piano, At Least.