I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.