There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or if they clap at the end of a song, then they're telling you something about the song. But you can have a good song that doesn't communicate. Perhaps that isn't a song that you can sing to people; perhaps that's a song that you sing to yourself. And some songs are maybe for a small audience, and some songs are for a wide audience. But the audience will let you know pretty quickly.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.