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.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

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.

We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

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

The way I was singing the songs was jazz