It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.