I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.

Don't try fixing something that is already broken to begin with.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.