That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.