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I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.