Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.