I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.