I am no one to be a purist.

I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.