Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.