That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

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

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

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.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

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.