I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.