When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

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

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

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

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.