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

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

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up on things now. It's like we were talking about the primitive thing before and all that. Nothing has really changed much. The things that have changed are like we're on the noon now. There are more buildings now. But we're still basically two monkeys sitting here.