The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.