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 take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

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

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.