You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.