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.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

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.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.