I don't think I ever really sold out, and that made a difference.
I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.
I write from the voice in my head.
Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.
I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.
That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.
Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.
I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.
I hate art as a be-all and an end-all.
I felt quite an affinity with 'Rocky' in my career. It's been like 'fight the business' all the way up.
I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.
All I've ever wanted to do is master my craft. I'm a singer, and I want to be a great singer.
I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.
My first two albums, 'Silverbird and 'Just a Boy,' which had the single 'Long Tall Glasses' on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, 'Another Year,' which did miserably.
One of the reasons I had moved to London to pursue my career was that I could go to the clubs in the evening and maybe meet my heroes, people like Donovan and Bert Jansch and Dylan. I actually did see Dylan in a club one night.
I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.
I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.
Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.
In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.
I was never really keen to drive. I was always chauffeured around.
