Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

Very often the music comes first.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.