I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.