I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.