Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.