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.

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

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

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

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

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