Mrs. Phillis: Your favour of the 26th of October did not reach my hands 'till the middle of December. Time enough, you will say, to have given an answer ere this. Granted. But a variety of important occurrences, continually interposing to distract the mind and withdraw the attention, I hope will apologize for the delay, and plead my excuse for the seeming, but not real neglect.

There was never a jostling for position about who was going to lead the band. The guys believe me, we love each other, they trust me and I trust them. They trust in me to know what I'm doing.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I'm dreading the time that is not near. As a man on a cross I have no fear. I can't believe these words I'm saying. You've got to feel your lines.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.