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.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Love is the light that can shine so bright.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

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

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