I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

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)

I never saw myself as a folk singer.