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"].

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

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

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.