The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.