I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.