You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.