I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

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

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar