Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

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

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.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.