"I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage"

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”

“FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch’s playing! I have always loved that about him.”

“The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.”

“There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.”

“When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues”

“Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.”

“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”

“What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.”