The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

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 consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

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.

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.