After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

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

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

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

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

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.