Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.