That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

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