I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog-big as a donkey. ... I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.