I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?