I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

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.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.