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

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

A fantabulous night to make romance.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.

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.