Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

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

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.