Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

It would have been 12-0, if not for him. The kid is incredible. He's scary good.

It's kind of a fun experience, though a little scary. I play a corpse and it's creepy to think of my family seeing me there in the morgue, dead.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.