I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

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.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.