I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.