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.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

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

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

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.