Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.