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.

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

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

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!

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

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.

Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.