[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.

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

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

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

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

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.