There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.