I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.

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.

Was he a doper or was he just a loser?