Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

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

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.