You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.