It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.