If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.