It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.