You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

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.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.