Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

Why do bad things happen to good people?''Because it makes a good story.

I have faith in the judicial system.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.