You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.