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

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.

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

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

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.