Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

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.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.