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

I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

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.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

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

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

The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.