When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].