[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.

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.

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

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.

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 just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.