I don't really have a retirement plan.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.