Ghandi? wasn't he shot in the forties?

It was nice being young in a lot of ways. You felt there was some point to life. Not sure there is these days. Maybe cos you were young and dumb.

When we practised guitar we most of us wanted to sound like Bert Jansch, Bob Dylan, The Beatles or the Stones or Steve cropper. These days they all seem to sound like Eddy Van Halen. I think I'd put him down as the most influential American (musically), a real unacknowledged legislator.

I still write endlessly about the 60's in my songs. Its a bit like that line from Wordsworth which I will probably misquote - Bliss was it to be alive in that dawn, but to be young was very heaven. I think he was talking about the French revolution, when he sowed a few wild oats.

when I see the diverse courses available for kids at university nowadays I am green with envy at the opportunities. But I feel sorry we didn't sort things out a bit better for them.

I don't mean about war and peace and all the great imponderables. rather I wish we had seen how messed up we all were about sex and family life - how the societal institutions don't really work out for everybody, and your wisest hope is for personal happiness.

also I'm sorry the USA went back to using capital punishment. I guess they would say its their own business, but whether they want to be or not, they are the moral leaders of most of the world.

People look to them for an example of how it should work out when a society is prosperous and free.