A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

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

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal