When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?