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.

Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

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