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.

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.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.