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"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."

"People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?"

"There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz."

"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."

"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so."

"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
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