The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture — music, galleries, auction houses — that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.