The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.