I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.