Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

Out of the blue and into the black

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].