I just have a lot off different influences.

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.

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

I'm playin' the music I like.

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

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