I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.