“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.