Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.