This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

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.