My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

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.

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.

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.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

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

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