Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.