I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.

I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

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.