I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

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

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 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.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.