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

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

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

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

['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.

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