I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

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

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.