What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

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

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

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.

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

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.