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

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.

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

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.