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.

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.

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

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

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

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.