I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.