['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.