What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.