When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.