The Truth Is Of Course Is That

Actually, My Ambition At Eight Or Nine Years Old Was To Be One Of Little Richard's Sax Players, And That's When I Got My First Saxophone, A Selmer. It Was A Strange Bakelite Material - That Creamy Plastic With All The Gold Keys On It. I Had To Get A Job As A Butcher's Delivery Boy To Start Paying For It.

I Just Put Drugs Down To Luck. I Persevere Quite Honestly, And I've Got A Fair Amount Of Discipline That Keeps Me Out Of Deep Water.

Ironically, Style Doesn't Come Even Closely Related To Fashion. It's Got Nothing To Do [with Clothes].

Am I Machiavellian? I Don't Think I'm Quite The Mastermind People Would Have Me Be. Everything I Do Tends To Be Very Successful And It May Have Something To Do With The Fact That I'm Very Good, Not Necessarily That I Manipulate. But That Doesn't Often Occur To People.

The Absolute Transformation Of Everything That We Ever Thought About Music Will Take Place Within 10 Years, And Nothing Is Going To Be Able To Stop It. I See Absolutely No Point In Pretending That It's Not Going To Happen. I'm Fully Confident That Copyright, For Instance, Will No Longer Exist In 10 Years.