Some things get better with age. Like me.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.