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.

In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.