I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

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

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.