I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.