All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

How can you live in the Northeast?

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

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.