When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.