In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.