To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.