You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.