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

You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.