Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.