You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.