Robert Hunter

“One man gathers what another man spills”

“I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.”

“If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.”

“I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it,...”

“I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play...”