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.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day