Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.