It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.