You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

Out of the blue and into the black

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

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

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.