I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.