Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

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