Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.