As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.