The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.