Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.