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.

Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number where you're making psychic connections that you're not really aware of but they're there.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz