The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.