We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.