I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

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

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!