In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

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

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

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

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.