Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.