You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.