There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.