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.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.