Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.