If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.