If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.