I believe that music is God's voice.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.