They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

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

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

My songs are like my kids.

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric. I've tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn't trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.