If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
My thinking musically has always been more advanced – it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that’s what I’m doing.
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
I always record far more than I can use. There’s probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
If it’s what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
I’m very lucky, I’m happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don’t have any regrets whatsoever.
Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
I don’t feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That’s what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.