It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

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.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.