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.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.