Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.