What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.