As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

At first I didn't dig country.