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

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

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

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

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.