How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.