When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.