"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."

"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

"I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth."

"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself."