I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.