What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.