I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

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.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic