I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

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