An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.