We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.