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.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

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.