I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.