There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

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

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.