Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.