When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

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

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

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

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.