From the liner notes of "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology): My friend Burt Stein (who was also my A&R man at Asylum records) and I were on vacation in Kauai, Hawaii. We were riding past the cane fields with a young woman whose acquaintance I'd made the previous evening and she was taking us to a friend's "plantation house." She mentioned sort of off-handedly that her friend wasn't home; that we might, in fact, have to break in. I turned to Burt. "Dear Joe," I said, thinking of Joe smith, the president of the record company, "Send lawyers." "And guns," Burt added. I said, "And money."