Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

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.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

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

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.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic