With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them