J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.