I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

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.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

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