Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

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