If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

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

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