Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.