I Don't Think I Went

If You Asked Anybody In My Family, They Would Have Very Stridently Proclaimed Themselves Middle Class. My Mother And Father Were Separated, So He Doesn't Count.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.

Most Of What I Listen To Now Is Mainstream Jazz From 1935 Right Up To And Including Early Bebop And Cool Jazz.

Honesty Is The Cruelest Game Of All, Because Not Only Can You Hurt Someone - And Hurt Them To The Bone - You Can Feel Self-righteous About It At The Same Time.

And Then Adds With A Laugh, 'but In Retrospect I Think He May Have Been More Sophisticated Than We Were.'