So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.