I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

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.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

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.

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

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.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.