For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.

I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.