It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.