I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.