At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

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.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.