I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.