A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.

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'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.