I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

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.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

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

In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.