I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

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

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.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

A fantabulous night to make romance.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.