Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.