It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.