People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it, and I think it's a nice way to work, but I try to do the best I can and write what I like. I don't worry about it.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.