The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.