When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.

A man destined to hang can never drown

Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.