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.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?