Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

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.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

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.