I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.