Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.