People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.