My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
I’ve been tired since I was 15.
Young people are still looking and older people have found...
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don’t pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother’s father built.
When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I’m not in one of those bands.
It’s really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.
Everything I’ve done I’ve just fallen into.
I don’t know why I’m alive but I know there’s a reason for it.
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
I don’t really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They’re not that good.
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
I’m not impersonating anybody. I’m perfectly satisfied with what I am.
I’m doing exactly what I want to do, and I’m having fun doing it.
I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven’t had a full band lately.