You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.

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.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.