Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.