You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.