Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time.

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.