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.

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.