I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.