I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.

When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music is about feeling and if there isn't any genuine feeling, if the song isn't about anything that anyone gives a damn about, there's nothing you can do. All the technique that exists won't make it any good; it'll just make it technological. All the production values you add won't do anything except make it glossy.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.