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.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.