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.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.