“The biker thing was a big surprise to me [the song’s inclusion in the movie Easy Rider – Ed].The truth is, I wrote ‘Born to Be Wild’ about my first car, a beat-up Ford Falcon. It’s not as glamorous as a fire-breathing two-wheeler, but c’mon. Nothing’s as cool as your first car.”Mars Bonfire (1348)

“…was really about the environment.”John Kay (1349)

“There’s a song on the second album called “None Of Your Doing,” which is really the story of a Vietnam soldier coming home and nobody understands what he went through. He cannot deal with what he went through and there’s no connection between home and what he is now having to deal with.”John Kay (1350)

“…which is my own personal story about escaping from East Germany.”John Kay (1350)

“I remember once talking to university students, and I asked them, “Be honest. How many of you fear silence?” A number of hands went up, because a lot of them, from the time they’re toddlers, whether it’s TV or the background music of the supermarket or wherever, whenever there’s silence, it astounds them, and it concerns them. I finally said, “I’m here to tell you that unless you learn to find some quiet spots, you may never hear a voice that’s in you that is trying to tell you there’s more out there. In other words, if you don’t hear that voice, you may live a totally external life all your life, instead of finding something that is. That song has been used by a number of people who wanted to play something for their daughter or son that were about to leave home and go to university or go far afield to do something on distant shores. That’s basically it. “Solitude’s no sacrifice, to catch a glimpse of paradise”.”John Kay (1349)