If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.
I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.
I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.
I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.
The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.