I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.