Musician Kenny G, 68, didnt grow up dreaming of becoming the best-selling instrumentalist of all time.
He tells AARP that 10-year-old Ken Gorelick was just going to school and trying to get good grades.
If Im playing the saxophone, it was just to be good in the school band.
It wasnt because I heard somebody on YouTube and said, Whoa, I want to be a superstar.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Did you read anymemoirsfor inspiration before you began writing yours?
And when I read it, I thought, OK, thats really good.
The way he writes it is almost like a preacher giving a sermon hes talented that way, charismatic.
My book is not going to be like that.
And if I tried to make it like that, it would just ruin everything.
So thats a good reason why I didnt want to read other peoples memoirs.
Who would you love to collaborate with?
If I could get [saxophonist] Grover Washington Jr. to be alive again, or Stan Getz.
And I made him play a melody with me.
It was pretty amazing.
Id be flattered if Wynton Marsalis called me, but I am so opposite.
I dont think that his world really likes my music, so thats never gonna happen.
Yo-Yo Ma coming to me that would be really cool, or Lang Lang the keyboard player.
Hes such a nice guy, and what a virtuoso!
So doing something with him would be pretty special.
Youre also a licensed pilot.
Where have you been flying lately?
Well, at the moment I havent flown for a year because my airplane got into an accident.
And I wasnt flying it was sitting.
Its a float plane.
It broke the wing, and it broke the elevator.
It broke a little bit of the tail.
I was just going to pound out the dents.
I said, Well, Ive got to get it off the water and get it to an airport.
I asked, Well, whats going to happen?
and they said, The wing could fall off when youre flying, and youll die.
