When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.