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.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

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

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.