If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

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.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.