I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.