I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.