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

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

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

I never was a very good singer.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.