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.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.