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

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.