All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

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.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.

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

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.