Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.