Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

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