If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.