The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.