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

There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the most highly paid and richest guys in show business. I really wish it was true! Then there's those where it's like my mother was raped by a martian and that kind of thing. National Enquirer-type stuff. They just make it up.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

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