'My music is best understood by children and animals.'

'For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mo…

'The over-publicized bit about expression (or non-expression) was simply a way of saying that music is supra-personal and super-real and as such beyond verbal …

'One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.'

If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that

'The idea that beauty is revolutionary is a revelation to me...I've discovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, can't add, can't work from verb…

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!