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

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.