If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

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.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.