You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.