Jackson Browne

At 16, music was already my main interest. That and girls. This was the point where I became more interested in music than surfing. When I got a licence to drive, at

16, I was allowed to take my car and just disappear with my friends for days. So I was hanging around at the beach with people older than me. Everybody was full of adventures, full of experimenting. I remember the first joint I ever smoked – I wound up watching the sun go down, listening to Ray Charles for an enormously long time! It changed everything. Time was changed, the music was changed, and I was changed. I was already into playing and writing songs, so that just intensified everything.

he had a lot to learn, but was on the right tracks. Getting a driving licence