When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

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

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

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