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

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

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.