I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Some people find it's easier to hate.

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.