I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.