If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.