There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

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

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.