Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.

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

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.