Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.