Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

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

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.