Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.