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.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

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

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

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.

There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.