I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

The body is the instrument of the soul.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.