Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

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

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

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

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.