And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.

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

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.