Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

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

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.