Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.