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

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.