I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

Every song is like a painting.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

I've got holes in my guitar.