I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.