And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

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

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.