The 2 Things I Like The Most

The People Who Were Learning From Me Tended To Be More Commercial Performers Who Were Gonna Rip Off The Salient Idea To Do It In A Way That Will Sell, But They Weren't Going For The Music.

I Smoked This Joint And Then It Hit Me. I Thought, What You Gotta Do Is Play Your Own Simply Blues.

And For So Long, I Had Thought If I Was Going To Write A Song, Or Get "into" Something, I Had To At Least Smoke A Joint Or Something. And That Didn't Work Anymore. Once I Was Fairly Well Cleaned Out, Even A Little Bit Of A Drug Getting Into My Work Threw Me Off Kilter.

A Lot Of Young Musicians Get The Money At The Wrong Time. They Get It For Something They Don’t Feel Great About, And It’ll Make You Feel So Bad It’ll Destroy You And Kill You.

In 1965, When Great Young White Artists In The English-speaking World Were Successfully Re-channeling Hillbilly And Black Music - You Know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - They Didn't Get Any Money At First. They Were All Broke.