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I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

I feel basically good about my career because it's remained constant. What I do has never been especially in vogue or gotten high on the charts. At the same time, I haven't had to stop performing any of my music because it aged in style.

Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.

In high school, I was a poor student.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

I take my own syrup, ketchup, and mustard, just in case of emergencies, in my suitcase. Whatever I can steal from the hotels. It's usually Heinz ketchup, and they give you a weird mustard. You don't get French's or anything; you get some sort of Dijon or some mustard. That's just for hot dogs. I don't use mustard for anything else.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

I don't like to be caught without a pick.

I hate to admit it to my wife, but I only wear two outfits on the road, and then a third one during the day, but I carry about 20.

I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.

I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.

If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.

Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

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