I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.