I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

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

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

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

In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.