I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

[One of the album's most poignant songs is its closing number, When God Made Me , sung from the perspective of a man searching for his place in the divine plan.] Did he create just me in his image, ... or every living thing?

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference between this album and my first or second album is I think the lyrics now go to places I could never go to then.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

The one thing you have to have is patience, ... You just can't rush everything. I use myself as an example. The last couple of years have been great, but it took some time to get up to that point.