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?

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.