Dan Fogelberg

“Now is the only thing that exists.”

“I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.”

“I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.”

“My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.”

“I choose to express myself.”

“I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.”

“I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.”

“I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.”

“It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.”

“MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.”

“You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!”

“I always try to give my songs as gifts.”

“Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.”

“I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.”

“My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.”

“It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.”

“I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.”

“My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.”

“Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.”

“My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.”