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

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

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.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.