There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

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

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.