The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.