...And you're the only one who knows.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

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

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?