While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

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.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

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