[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.

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 don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.