“I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.”
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“I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.”
“I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.”
“A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.”
“But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.”
“Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?”
“I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.”
“I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.”
“I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.”
“When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.”
“I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.”
“The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.”
“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.”
“There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.”
“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.”
“The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.”
“Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.”
“[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.”
“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.”
“I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.”