My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

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.

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

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

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.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.