You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

I am as constant as a northern star