For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.