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

The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

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

I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.