I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.