Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

['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.

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

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.