Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

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.

Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.