I'm in a New York state of mind

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.

People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.