I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

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 never was a very good singer.

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.

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

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