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

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.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.