For Me, The Most Trustworthy Vehicle For

You Were At School And You Were Pimply And No One Wanted To Know You. You Get Into A Group And You've Got Thousands Of Chicks There.

I Listened To King Oliver And I Listened To Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I Listened To Everything I Could That Came From That Place That They Call The Blues But, In Formality, Isn't Necessarily The Blues.

I Remember When I Thought Of Singing As The Bit That Went Between The Guitar Playing - Something I Couldn't Wait To Get Out Of The Way. Singing Was Originally Like A Chore That I Didn't Really Enjoy.

The Thing About Pessimism Is That In Most Cases It's Nothing More Than A Front Behind Which A Body Can Hide Its Most Sweetful Yet Painful Hopes. Please Forgive Mine.

And If I Don't Be There By Morning, She'll Know That I Must've Spent The Night In Jail.