Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.