A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.