There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.