It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

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.

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.