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

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

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.