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

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.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

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.

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.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you