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

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

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

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.