I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.