Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.