I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

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

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.