The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

The wild night is calling.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.