I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.

We return to you, O earth, the things which you have given us willingly and most graciously; with our hearts, hands and minds, in the best way we know how.

I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.