I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

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.