You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.