Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.