So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.