[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
Smell the sea and feel the sky.