 There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere. |
| So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. |
| I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. |
| Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people. |
| I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. |
| I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. |
| 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. |
| I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. |
| I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. |
| I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. |
| I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. |
| But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. |
