My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

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

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.