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I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.

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I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.

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People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.

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I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.

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If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

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I can't say New York's home, but I've made a lot of friends, and I'm developing a map of what cats are here and where they play, and as a singer, you're always looking for projects that tie things in emotionally and intuitively with your life.

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I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

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Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.

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Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am.

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I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 2nd, 1967

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