I don't really have a retirement plan.

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

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.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong