I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.

The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.