Being a musician is a noble profession.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.