I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.

What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic