Quotes

I agree that everybody writes songs, because our lives are a song. There are those of us who maybe focus on writing it down. I believe that everybody's life is a song and everybody is writing the song of their lives.

[from an interview in 2006] It really feels good to be back, especially meeting people. It's a very small world I live in -- very small, very small, very enclosed -- so getting out and talking with people and exchanging ideas and finding out what other people are doing, thinking, and feeling is very nice.

I was a songwriter and my record label really didn't want me out there in the public. The label thought if I knew how popular I was, I'd want more money. I was literally destroyed three months later. The label told me to sign away everything I'll ever earn and earned and sent out word that I was persona non grata. They wanted to destroy me and this kind of music. They thought Bob Dylan was an idiot and a communist.

Around '72, I literally collapsed inwardly and physically. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, a blood illness that zaps you of all your energy. I was depressed. Nobody knew what to do.