There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.
If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, that's what you aim for.
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.