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

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

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

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.