The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.