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.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

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

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.