You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

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

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.