The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

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

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.