Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.