When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.