I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

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