All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

Is there anybody alive out there?

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.