I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.