If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

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

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.