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"I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time."
"We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people."
"The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head."
"I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill."
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
"I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture."
"Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music."
"I never, ever said that I was a nice guy."
"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."
"I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years."
"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."
"In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently."
"Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it."
"I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me."
"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
"In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord."
"Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love."
"Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think."
"Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee."
"[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing."