I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

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

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.

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

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.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.