But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

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.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Feed your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive