The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
I'm just going to tour; that's the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.
Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
I'm kind of new to Twitter. I'm about one year in, so I'm a little late to the party.
I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.
The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.
Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.
I'll never understand those greasy little deep-fried wings most bars serve.
I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.
If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil.
If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?
When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.
Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.
I think every young cook wants to write a book.
