You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.