[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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.