I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

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

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

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