I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

I always write well in New York.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.