I'm Playin' The Music I Like.

I Don't Remember Any Impression [from Blues].the Blues Was Just Everywhere In The Mississippi Delta. It Was Mostly Black Sharecroppers Living There, And There Was A Lot Of Blues Around. Sometimes The Guys Would Sing The Blues In The Fields, Working.

I Was Taking Chemical Engineering. But I Went Into The Army After That. When I Came Out Of The Army, I Was A Different Person. I Met A Lot Of Good Jazz Players In The Army.

I Don't Sit Down To Write A Song; They Just Come To Me From Something That Somebody Says, Or Something In The News. The Punchline Comes To Me, And I Go Over It In My Head And Get The Song Form. I Hadn't Been Doing That A Lot.

I Just Try To Do As Good Job With The Material As I Can And Play Some Jazz As Well, Some Improvised Music, And Do That Every Night. Just See Where It Goes.

You Always Want To Write The Perfect Song. But No One Will Ever Write The Perfect Song, I Guess. I Would Just Like To Write On That Has All The Elements Of What I'm Tring To Do. And I'm Working On It. I'm Always Working On It.