We do take these cues about how we look and use them to guide how we behave. This shows how easily we are able to adapt and apply the rules to a new look.

We are not there to sell any one type of boat over another. We are there to sell boating as a recreation. All we want to do is point people in the right direction.

We're very aware of the questions. We've run into people over the years who have been stymied simply because they didn't know where to get the answers.

We are trying to attract new people to boating. The boat show is a great meeting place. I was 10 when my father took me to the New York Boat Show. That is how I got hooked.

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Just like Coca-Cola, NYU is a brand. We're a dream school, the school of [TV series] Felicity, and we make news.