I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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.

I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I put in alternate things...and things that might be alternates or improvements. I'll turn the page and do it again. I'll turn the page and do it again, or incorporate the improvements. Eventually, I end up with some material, and often it needs to be ordered.

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

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.

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