I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.