Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

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.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.

I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.