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

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.