It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

